Two planes almost crashed into each other Monday in Mexico City, an incident that comes after multiple aviation accidents in recent months have rattled travelers. Delta Air Lines told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation that on one of its flights headed to Atlanta from Mexico City on Monday morning, flight crew onboard “observed another aircraft…
President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense project officially has a new team lead and gained potentially another $13 billion, setting the effort on a race to hit its ambitious three-year timeline. The office will be led by Vice Chief of Space Operations Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as…
A majority of Americans said they will never be interested in buying cryptocurrency even with the ownership rising in the past few years, according to a new survey that was released on Tuesday. The new Gallup found that 60 percent of respondents said they have no interest in buying cryptocurrency. Around 17 percent said they…
Former President Obama on Tuesday denied the Trump administration’s claims that he manipulated intelligence related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,” Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesperson for Obama, said in a statement sent to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company. “Nothing in the document issued…
The Education Department has paused student loan forgiveness under the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan without a clear timeline of when it might resume. The department argues any IBR forbearances were impacted by ongoing court action. “The Department has temporarily paused discharges for IBR borrowers in order to comply with ongoing court injunctions regarding the Biden…
A federal judge reinstated two Democratic appointees at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on Tuesday whom President Trump purported to fire. It’s the latest decision reversing Trump’s firings of independent agency leaders across the federal bureaucracy. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali warned in his 27-page ruling that accepting the administration’s position would mean that…
A group of 21 attorneys general filed a Monday lawsuit against the Trump administration over a February executive order that ousts migrants without legal status from social service programs. Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor and Justice have reworked requirements to…
Ozzy Osbourne, a British rocker, had a complex relationship with American politics, having been a featured guest at the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2002, being an outspoken anti-war activist, and criticizing the Brexit movement in his home country.
Democrats are showing they’re ready to get dirty and hit President Trump where it hurts by stoking the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s severed his MAGA movement. The strategy strays from the official line coming from top Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), who say they want their midterm campaign message to center…
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Monday downplayed emotions surrounding files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The reason why people care about this a lot, not just because of the very real Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking and the crimes that were committed, it is the fact that Donald Trump himself spent years —…
